Literary Science
Scientist who used a bunch of corpses to create a living being
Who is Frankenstein?
This is what transmits the electric force
What is an electric field?
I push a wall. The force I exert on the wall is equal and opposite to this
What is the force the wall exerts on me?
French philosopher famous for saying "I think, therefore I am" (and after whom a famous coordinate system is named)
The closest galaxy to the Milky Way
What is the Andromeda galaxy?
disastrous theme park on Isla Nublar where hungry prehistoric creatures were brought back to life
What is Jurassic Park?
Name for when you transfer of charge by rubbing two neutral objects together
What is friction?
The force that balances gravity in hydrostatic balance
What is the pressure gradient force?
Discovered nuclear fission
Who is Lise Meitner?
Found at the center of every galaxy
What is a black hole?
The invading aliens defeat the humans but are finally defeated because they all get the flu in this classic sci-fi story
What is War of the Worlds?
Smallest subatomic particle
What is an electron?
A quantity that tells you the strength and direction of a non-contact force at every point in space
What is a field?
Astronaut and physicist; first American woman in space
Who is Sally Ride?
Almost all elements heavier than iron formed in these kinds of events
What is a supernova?
The novel Parable of the Sower by this author presciently describes a climate apocalypse
Who is Octavia Butler?
If you increase the distance between two charges by four times, and increase one of the charges by two times, the force changes by this much
What is 1/8?
Force is equal to the change in THIS divided by the change in time
What is momentum?
Navigated using the North Star to escape slavery and then go back to liberate other enslaved people
The existence of microwave radiation filling all space in the observable universe is evidence for this
What is the Big Bang?
Unit of distance that is incorrectly used by Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy
What is a parsec?
The electric field inside a conductor
What is zero?
Dot product of force and displacement
What is work?
Credited with writing the first computer program (before computers had been invented)
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The net charge of the universe (as far as we know)
What is zero?